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Though of course, Urist didn't use to be the everyday dwarf, but instead was an insane hermit dwarf. Go look up "One Dwarf Against the World" in the stories section if you want to see the true origins, and personality, of Urist.

Who was, as I recall, female.

The Legacy of Urist

Urist Uristurist the Urist-Urist of Urist was a famous dwarven warrior.  In 25, Urist killed 749 elves in Evethafatha, "the Eviscerated Battle".  In 31, Urist killed the carp demon Osnun Doomwitch the Flickering Dust, saving 5 fisherdwarves.  In 33, Urist's throat was torn out by the large rat Naquuvthad.  In 33, Urist bled to death in the Dismal Jungle.

Since this time, the name of Urist has always been remembered with honor in the Mountain Homes.

You need to add an entry in the entity file for them, like this:
[ENTITY:TEST]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:TITAN]
You might want to give them [INTELLIGENT] in their creature entry, and [CANOPENDOORS].

Giant Cave Spiders.  Which is to say, doom.

I just saw this... migrants appearing well away from the edge of the map.  It was also the wave when the baron, etc. first showed up.

Bigger towns tend to be richer, and have better equipment.  If you want to do a bit of modding, you can give the human civilization [METAL_PREF], which will give them access to steel.  But I think you'd need to generate a new world.

Modded weapons are fun, too.  I was just playing as a size 200 Titan wielding a hammer with 1500 damage.  Landing one solid blow would make almost anything fly away and collide with an obstacle.

Then I wandered into a human temple.


The priestess who shot me almost managed to block and dodge my attacks long enough for me to suffocate.  Almost.


By the way, giving all the megabeasts an extra order of magnitude in size makes the Age of Myth last quite nicely.

A dwarven caravan arrived, worked its way to my depot, and started unloading.  I got the standard "Merchants have arrived and are unloading their goods." message.  I wasn't watching them too closely because haulers were still carrying a stream of trade goods in, and my broker was off storing an owned item.

Then I noticed some crafts lying around on the floor, with nobody picking them up and carrying them to the depot.  I checked the depot, and it said no merchants were trading; there were also no merchants on the unit list.

I received no message that they were leaving.  There were no free hostiles on the map, all though I have plenty of stockpiled goblin cages.  I don't think they even had time, between the last time I checked on them and the point when I noticed this, to reach the edge of the map.

I do have two trade depots constructed at the moment.  The one they were using is under ground, accessible by a fairly small, ramped tunnel, and they did have a bit of a traffic jam getting in.